Business Operations Analyst

Cisco • Milpitas, MI

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Health team helps Cisco plan spending, manage budgets, and use resources effectively. Our work includes budgeting, forecasting, following financial policies, and automating routine tasks. We partner with Finance and Marketing to turn financial data into clear information that supports business decisions. Our team works together to maintain accurate financial records and improve how work gets done. Joining this team gives you the opportunity to help Cisco improve financial planning and support business growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or coursework in finance, accounting, or statistics.
• 3+ years of experience in business operations, financial analysis, or a role that includes budget tracking and financial reporting.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel to create pivot tables, apply lookup and conditional formulas, and build spreadsheets that calculate spending totals and forecasts.
• Experience completing monthly or quarterly financial reporting activities, including comparing actual spending with budgets, updating forecasts, and checking purchasing records against accounting records.
• Experience preparing financial reports that identify differences between planned and actual spending, explain the causes, and recommend corrective actions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using SAP or Oracle to review purchasing and accounting records, and Hyperion to maintain budgets or forecasts.
• Experience building reports or charts in Tableau or Power BI to track spending, budgets, or forecasts.
• Experience using SQL to retrieve and combine data from databases.
• Experience completing a process improvement that reduced processing time, manual steps, or errors, with results that can be described or measured.
• Experience presenting financial findings to colleagues outside Finance and working with them to agree on actions, owners, and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Track operating costs and spending on long-term assets against approved budgets so budget owners can identify and address differences.
• Support monthly and quarterly financial reviews by processing purchase requests and invoices, recording costs incurred but not yet billed, and checking that purchasing records match accounting records.
• Maintain employee count, spending, and forecast data in Hyperion, and explain differences between planned and actual results.
• Prepare reports that help Finance and Marketing partners understand spending trends, update forecasts, and decide where to take action.
• Improve recurring financial processes to reduce manual work and errors, with success measured by accurate records, reports delivered on schedule, and completion of required financial checks.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• grants of Cisco restricted stock units
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• flexible vacation time off program
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• annual bonuses
• performance-based incentive pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level